Millman v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Merritz v. Circelli (1949), Seaboard Ice Co. v. Lee (1957)
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on George v. Hesse · Commonwealth v. Plaisted · Hope v. City of Alton · Halsey v. Morteiro · Gotthelf v. . Stranahan
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The specific performance of a contract is not a matter of absolute right, but rests in a sound, judicial discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Callison v. Glick
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.